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Catalogue
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Medicine and pharmacy : an informal history ancient Greece and Rome.
Date: 1956- Archives and manuscripts
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'Conferences and congresses. VIII International Congress of the History of Medicine, Rome'
Date: 1930Reference: WA/HMM/CO/Sub/67Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Archives and manuscripts
Valeri, Gaetano (fl. 19th century), Professor of Clinical Medicine, Rome University
Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.7783/3Part of: Miscellany: Italian, 18th-20th centuries- Books
Medicine in ancient Rome : medicine, ancient Rome, ophthalmology, urology, Cloaca Maxima, scopolamine, forceps, scalpel, Pedanius Dioscorides / Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster (ed.).
Date: 2011- Books
A torrent of lions : Medicine in Imperial Rome (285BC - AD 476) / [Félix Martí Ibañez].
Martí-Ibáñez, Félix, 1915-1972Date: 1962